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'Woman', this five letter word in itself symbolizes the various facets of the relationship which every man has to pass by at the various stages of life in form of Mother, Sister, Wife, Daughter and Daughter-in-law. In India, women have been held in high esteems at all times.

In the long history of humanity and its development, in propagation of the human race and in the social economy of the world, woman has been as important factor as man, yet she was always looked down as an inferior creature. Even under the Roman law, a woman was completely dependent. As an unmarried girl, she was under the perpetual tutelage of her father during his life and after his death of her agnates by the blood or adoption. When married, she and her whole property passed in to power and possession of her husband.1

A woman on her marriage very often though highly educated gives up her all vocations and devotes herself entirely towards her family.In particular, she shares with her husband, her emotions, sentiments, mind, body and her investment in her marriage is her entire life. When a relationship of such nature breaks, in what manner we could compensate her is far too enormous and away in terms of money.2 This is not only in the case of married women only who has to pass by this kind of suffering and solace but we can take the example of unmarried daughters, widows or aged or infirm parents who not